It's Beginning to Look A Lot Like Solstice

We can't leave for the holidays without a good old-fashioned "War on Christmas" story. So...
T'was the week before Christmas, and a couple ...

We can't leave for the holidays without a good old-fashioned "War on Christmas" story. So...

T'was the week before Christmas, and a couple of city council members in Green Bay, Wisconsin, put a large nativity scene on the roof of the City Hall entryway. You can imagine that this move was met with considerable controversy.

To mitigate the public outcry, Green Bay Mayor Jim Schmitt announced that the roof would be open to symbols of any faith.

The first to take him up on it? A Wiccan church, which installed a couple of pagan symbols next the manger. (In a somewhat ironic twist that underscores the actual origins of a lot of the symbols we associate with Christmas, the Wiccans' contributions were an evergreen wreath and a shiny, gold star.)